Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Context
This verse from Hosea Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. The marriage metaphor extends to God's relationship with Israel: she has gone after her lovers not knowing God was the one who gave her grain, wine, and oil. God will block her path and woo her back to the wilderness …
Other Translations
lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as <FI>in<Fi> the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
Cross References
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou …
And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the …
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in …
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be …
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel …
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet …
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us …
O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? …
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the …